different between wain vs sain

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /we?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæ?n, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos, from *we??- (“to bring, transport”). Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. Doublet of wagon, a borrowing from Dutch.

Alternative forms

• wayn (obsolete)

Noun

wain (plural wains)

1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.

   "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:wain.

Related terms

• Charles' Wain
• wainwright

Translations

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. (rare, transitive) To carry.

Etymology 2

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. Misspelling of wane.

   As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new. [1]

Etymology 3

From wee one.

Noun

wain (plural wains)

1. (Derry) A collective word usually for children.

Related terms

• wean

Anagrams

• IAWN, inaw, iwan

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine.

Noun

wain

1. wine

Japanese

Romanization

wain

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

wain

1. brook; creek; stream

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine, from Middle English wyn, win, from Old English w?n, from Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num, from Proto-Italic *w?nom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [w??in?], (enunciated) [w? in?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæ?jin?/
• Bender phonemes: {wahyin}

Noun

wain

1. wine

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Medebur

Noun

wain

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Middle English

Noun

wain

1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wine.

Pronunciation

Noun

wain

1. wine

Descendants

• ? Rotokas: uain

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wai?n/

Noun

wain

1. Soft mutation of gwain.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English sainen, seinen, senen, sinen, signen, from Old English s?nian, se?nian, from Proto-Germanic *segn?n? (“to mark with a cross, bless”), from Latin sign?, from signum. Cognate with Dutch zegenen (“to bless”), German segnen (“to bless”), Irish séan (“sign, omen”) and Scottish Gaelic seun (“a charm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

sain (third-person singular simple present sains, present participle saining, simple past and past participle sained)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
2. (intransitive, obsolete except in Scots) To make the sign of the cross.
3. (transitive, archaic) To bless, to keep from evil influence.
   • 1889, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), Agamemnon, page 57 in The House of Atreus, 2nd edition,

     Far from my speech stands he who sains and saves.

   • 1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life:

     The child was sained then. Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.

References

Anagrams

• ANSI, ASIN, ISNA, Isan, Nias, Sian, Sina, anis, as in, nais, nasi, nasi', nias

Bavarian

Verb

sain

1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) to be

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Bikol Central

Pronoun

saín

1. (interrogative) where

Synonyms

• hain

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa?in

Adverb

sain

1. which

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• zèinan, soin

Etymology

From Middle High German sein, s?n, from Old High German s?n (“to be”). Cognate with German sein.

Verb

sain (irregular, auxiliary sain)

1. (Tredici Comuni) to be

References

• “sain” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Verb

sain

1. First-person singular past form of saama.

Finnish

Verb

sain

1. First-person singular indicative past form of saada.

Anagrams

• Sian, anis, nais, nais-, sian

French

Etymology

From Old French sain, from Latin s?nus, from Proto-Indo-European *sw?-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Homophones: sains, saint, saints, sein, seing, seings, seins
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

sain (feminine singular saine, masculine plural sains, feminine plural saines)

1. healthy; in good health
2. healthful; beneficial to health of body or mind.

Derived terms

• sain et sauf

Related terms

• santé
• sanitaire

Further reading

• “sain” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• anis, nais, nias

Manchu

Romanization

sain

1. Romanization of ????

Middle English

Verb

sain

1. Alternative form of seien

Old French

Etymology

From Latin s?nus.

Adjective

sain m (oblique and nominative feminine singular saine)

1. healthy; in good health

Descendants

• French: sain

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sani (“different”) (whence Welsh hân (“separation”), from Proto-Indo-European *senH-; cognate with Latin sine, Ancient Greek ???? (áter, “without, apart from”), Sanskrit ??????? (sanitúr, “without”), Old English sundor (“apart, separately”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /san?/

Adjective

sain

1. different
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^c23

2. special
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73^d7

   • c. 850, “Pangur Bán”, stanza 1:

Usage notes

This adjective is uninflected and always precedes the noun it modifies, which (unless it starts with one of d l n s t) undergoes lenition.

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 sain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin su?nus.

Noun

sain n (plural sainuri)

1. (archaic) pork meat

See also

• porc
• carne

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) sein
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

Etymology

From Latin sinus (compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Spanish seno).

Noun

sain m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, anatomy) breast (of a woman)

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
• (Sutsilvan) péz
• (Puter, Vallader) pet

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English (whence also English sain), from Old English, from Latin. Cognate to Scottish Gaelic seun (“a charm”).

Verb

sain

1. to bless or consecrate
2. to make the sign of the cross, to genuflect

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sai?n/

Noun

sain f (plural seiniau, not mutable)

1. sound

   Synonym: s?n

Derived terms

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• sein

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn, from Proto-Germanic *sainaz, *sainijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sá???n/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -é???n

Adjective

sain (comparative sainan, superlative sainest)

1. well late; arriving late; sluggish, tardy